Example sentences of "[vb past] himself to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 2 | ‘ So he went down , ’ said Frome , as if puzzling it out , ‘ and he helped himself to the headmaster 's sherry . ’ |
| 3 | He downed one tankard and , when the friar nodded , helped himself to the second . |
| 4 | Rex drew himself to the business in hand . |
| 5 | But Christmas over , he reapplied himself to the lute and managed to complete it . |
| 6 | During this period he was active in public service in Wales , and devoted himself to the development of scouting , and became a friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of the Boy Scout movement . |
| 7 | He devoted himself to the poor of Leicester . |
| 8 | ‘ He simply devoted himself to the sport and was never in any doubt about what he wanted to be , ’ adds Sid . |
| 9 | For almost twenty years Stutchbury devoted himself to the museum . |
| 10 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 11 | To and fro from Sydney to Parramatta he devoted himself to the spiritual and physical welfare of the convicts . |
| 12 | Reverend Wulwick dedicated himself to the children 's needs : |
| 13 | He propelled himself to the ledge with minimal protection — being too knackered to stop and place anything better — and arrived in a sweating heap , to the knowing grins of the rockstars . |
| 14 | Jackson lowered himself to the ground . |
| 15 | Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew . |
| 16 | He sighed and lowered himself to the other end of the settee . |
| 17 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 18 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 19 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 20 | When Knox became a fellow of King 's in 1909 he inherited the then deceased Headlam 's work on Herodas and applied himself to the fragmentary texts of the Herodas papyri in the British Museum . |
| 21 | Confident that there was enough evidence to support the move , Branson now appointed himself to the board as an ‘ A ’ director , giving the Virgin Group a three to two majority over Fields . |
| 22 | The point is that Knighton , for all the ludicrous exhibitionism with which he announced himself to the Stretford End , decided to withdraw , despite evidence that he could indeed finance the original deal . |
| 23 | Bodie flung himself to the window-sill , leaning hard up against the plate glass and searching to right and left of the playground . |
| 24 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 25 | But it should be remembered that his was an extremely impassioned and subjective response of a man who had fought in Spain , toured some of the depressed North and committed himself to the increasing intellectual and left-wing policies of the Independent Labour Party . |
| 26 | He believed the Lord could and would save him , and he committed himself to the Lord and trusted him to save him . |
| 27 | Jesus compared himself to the bridegroom . |
| 28 | Here Blake left them , identified himself to the surprised border guards and a few days later was flown to Mosow for a triumphant reunion with the KGB . |
| 29 | Mr Souness , who will be 39 in May , drove himself to the hospital just after midday in his £73,000 Mercedes 500 SL coupe , accompanied by his girlfriend , Karen Levy , 32 , a former actress and television show hostess . |
| 30 | The boy looked up at the plane , then threw himself to the ground . |